The Prohibition era in America, which lasted for well over a decade and—inconceivable as it might be today—effectively banned the sale and production of booze in the United States, ended with the ratification of the 21st Amendment on Dec. 5, 1933.

Topic: Ezra Stoller

If modernism sought to give us Le Corbusier’s “machine for living in,” photographer Ezra Stoller, who died in 2004, used the camera as a machine for living through. A new book by Yale University Press, ‘Ezra Stoller, Photographer’, highlights some of the master’s best photography.